Gazz 24x3.0" discontinued? [rumor]

While out riding this weekend (all the way up Old Railroad Grade on
Mount Tamalpais, down along the ridge trails; outstanding!) I ran into a
downhill biker who claimed that the Gazz 24x3.0" was discontinued this
week. Has anyone heard anything about this?

[He also said that the Gazz tires pretty much suck for downhill biking,
which could explain why.]


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Yeah, I was just wondering that myself. I haven't been able to find the
24 x 3.0 Gazz on their website for a while.


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Deja vu all over again.

Can someone with industry connections confirm whether or not this is
true. We had this rumor once before a few years ago and Nokian brought
them back.

They're not a great tire for downhill bikes but they are good for the
folks riding bikes on the snow. I've been hopeful that the tire would
stay around for the snow bikes and for the munis. Some freeriders using
hardtail bikes also like the 24x3 Gazz. Not the biggest market but it
is a market that really likes the tire.

I'm going to have to check my parts closet. I think I've got 3 spare
Gazzs in there.


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john_childs wrote:
*Deja vu all over again.*


Department of redundancies department .

For everything but snow riding and muni, lets face it, the gazz does
suck. Ask any serious biker, 99/100 will tell you it's an awful tire.
Then again, most 24x3.0 tires are considered crap.


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gerblefranklin wrote:
*For everything but snow riding and muni, lets face it, the gazz does
suck. Ask any serious biker, 99/100 will tell you it's an awful tire.
Then again, most 24x3.0 tires are considered crap. *

Depends on what the serious biker is doing. Some serious bikers really
do like the 24x3 Gazz. For example, 'GOATBIKE'
(http://www.goatbike.com/) really likes the 24x3 Gazz for their bike and
the style of riding some are using the bike for.


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I recently phone the distrubutor here in South Africa that import nokian
tyres (the same distrubutor that import magura) inquiring about the cost
on maguras, i also asked about the 24x3" Guz.
they said they are out of stock, and wont be getting any more in
stock.

I checked the 'nokian website' (http://www.nokian.com/bicycletyres_en)
and it seems they have sold the bicycle tyre devision to'suomityres'
(http://www.suomityres.fi/) at the end of last year, there is a
distributors list on the new site.

Cheers
shaun


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Do Nokian know how respected their tyre is in the world of muni?

Maybe it would be worth a few muni-ists e-mailing them, posting some
links etc.

From Nokians perspective, if they reckon their 24x3 Gazz tyre is
perceived by the customer base as merely a poor downhill tyre, then it's
no surprise that they'll discontinue it.

If they're aware that there's a (admittedly relatively small, but
growing) market of muni-ists who consider the Gazz to be arguably the
best tyre for their sport- then surely they'd be more inclined to
continue production?

Some companies do take catering for the unicycle market seriously, an
example being Coker.


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john_childs wrote:
*Can someone with industry connections confirm whether or not this is
true.. *


I'll make some calls today......


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I called a rep at Suomi Tyres but they were gone.....it was 4:15PM their
time so I guess they stop working at 4 in Finland!

Called a rep at Quality and he said they had catalog notes on that item
to discontinue any further orders........he and I both agree that this
basically means the 24x3.0 has been discontinued. Suomi Tyres will
continue to make a 24x2.6 however and that is still a pretty beefy tire
compared to your average 2.6.

I'll send the person at Suomi I tried to call this morning an email to
make sure but with the calls I made this morning I am 99% sure the
24x3.0 Gazzy has been retired.

Looks like ya'll gotta move to the Arrow WideBite like me and Jagur


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I have a 24 x 3 Gazz still for sale if someone out there wants to stash
one as back up in their closet like John did.

(PM me for price and pic.)


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